Fb approaches Netflix, Disney to help TV chat system: The Info

FILE PHOTO: A Fb emblem on an Ipad is mirrored amongst supply code on the LCD display screen of a pc, on this picture illustration taken in Sarajevo June 18, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Picture

(Reuters) – Fb Inc has approached Netflix Inc, Walt Disney Co and different media corporations about placing their streaming providers on a brand new Fb system for making video calls from televisions, The Info reported on Wednesday.

The social media big has additionally approached Hulu, HBO and Amazon.com Inc, the report stated. (bit.ly/2YGXpBG)

The system, which Fb goals to launch this fall, will use the identical video-calling expertise that’s in its video chatting system Portal, the report stated, citing two folks aware of the mission and paperwork.

The brand new system, code-named Catalina, may also include a bodily distant and streaming video providers just like different tv packing containers like Apple TV.